The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists... 36 KB (4,194 words) - 18:32, 11 April 2024 |
In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they... 6 KB (584 words) - 14:50, 26 February 2024 |
A constructed writing system or a neography is a writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of... 16 KB (1,645 words) - 02:58, 21 November 2023 |
Alphabet (redirect from Alphabetic writing system) can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken... 64 KB (7,023 words) - 16:59, 22 April 2024 |
considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system used to represent all dialects. Ojibwe dialects have been written in... 72 KB (5,999 words) - 22:32, 5 March 2024 |
Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts. The oldest and native... 14 KB (1,624 words) - 14:55, 29 April 2024 |
Akuru" was used historically by Maldivians to distinguish their own writing system from foreign scripts. Foreign scripts were learned and introduced at... 13 KB (1,707 words) - 21:33, 8 March 2024 |
A numeral system is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or... 19 KB (2,845 words) - 23:15, 28 March 2024 |
where writing is thought to have developed independently. Mesoamerican scripts deciphered to date are a combination of logographic and syllabic systems. They... 25 KB (3,043 words) - 06:42, 7 April 2024 |
Southeast Asia uses various non-Latin-based writing systems. The writing systems below are listed by language family. Khmer script (for Khmer language)... 8 KB (598 words) - 19:15, 9 September 2023 |
Ideogram (redirect from Ideographic writing systems) may form part of a writing system otherwise based on other principles, like the examples above in the phonetic English writing system—while also potentially... 14 KB (1,621 words) - 18:01, 29 March 2024 |
Korean language (redirect from Korean writing system) century King Sejong the Great personally developed an alphabetic featural writing system known today as Hangul. He felt that Hanja was inadequate to write Korean... 136 KB (10,413 words) - 10:30, 27 April 2024 |
Egyptian hieroglyphs (redirect from Egyptian hieroglyphic writing) (/ˈhaɪrəˌɡlɪfs/, /ˈhaɪroʊˌɡlɪfs/) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic... 48 KB (5,269 words) - 21:55, 16 April 2024 |
Vietnamese language (redirect from Vietnamese writing system) characters used in the Vietnamese traditional writing system) and an archaic form of the chữ Nôm (writing system for vernacular Vietnamese language using Chinese... 131 KB (12,232 words) - 13:49, 25 April 2024 |
Maya script (redirect from Maya writing system) is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially... 59 KB (5,808 words) - 20:22, 27 April 2024 |
Shorthand (redirect from Shorthand writing) on whether compression or speed of writing is the goal. Many forms of shorthand exist. A typical shorthand system provides symbols or abbreviations for... 36 KB (4,256 words) - 20:50, 20 April 2024 |
Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early... 13 KB (1,429 words) - 02:55, 13 April 2024 |
Syllabary (redirect from Syllabic writing system) end of syllables), are also found in syllabaries.[citation needed] A writing system using a syllabary is complete when it covers all syllables in the corresponding... 9 KB (1,039 words) - 01:16, 18 February 2024 |
who are purported by traditions to have invented alphabets or other writing systems, whether this is proven or not. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - German... 17 KB (1,990 words) - 08:45, 21 January 2024 |
Logogram (redirect from Logosyllabic writing) innovation in enabling the writing system to adequately encode human language. Logographic systems include the earliest writing systems; the first historical... 29 KB (3,596 words) - 14:51, 6 April 2024 |
as a traditional writing system, asemic writing seeks to make the reader hover in a state between reading and looking. Asemic writing has no verbal sense... 21 KB (2,327 words) - 22:00, 19 April 2024 |
Pegon script (redirect from Pegon (writing system)) 2019. Rikza 2022. Jamalin, F., & Rahman, A. A. (2021). Arabic-Java Writing System: How Javanese Language Adopts Arabic Script. Izdihar : Journal of Arabic... 45 KB (2,065 words) - 22:20, 27 April 2024 |
Swedish alphabet (redirect from Swedish writing system) alphabet (Swedish: Svenska alfabetet) is a basic element of the Latin writing system used for the Swedish language. The 29 letters of this alphabet are the... 22 KB (2,012 words) - 18:31, 15 April 2024 |
A dictionary writing system (DWS), or dictionary production/publishing system (DPS) is software for writing and producing a dictionary, glossary, vocabulary... 2 KB (236 words) - 17:51, 19 September 2023 |